Jean-Pierre, I use a similar setup, just BasicTeX because of the smaller foot print with additional packages loaded as needed and WIndows7 and Windows10 virtual machines in the latest Virtual Box.
buffer-view.sgvz is displayed as icon in the text without issues as are all the others. I don't use inkscape, but have librsvg installed (via homebrew). Once that is done a reconfigure in LyX will find rsvg-convert which does as well but with much smaller footprint (and I think also faster). Inkscape on the Mac requires a X11 servier, ie XQuartz. The Examples are in (and below) /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/examples/ I am an elderly Gynecologist, running my practice on LyX since 2004 and find this extremely easy. el On 2017-08-14 08:43 , Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote: > Hello Stephan > > A French user complains sadly about a couple of problems with LyX > (first experience). > > His conf: > iMac 2011 (OSX 10.12.5), MacTeX (May 24th, 2017), LyX 2.2.3, virtual > Windows versions WinXP and Win10 (Parallels Desktop). > > His problems: > 1) opening splash.lyx, gets a message > > No information for converting svgz format files to pdf6.\n > Define a converter in the preferences. > > (this is the toolbar icon) > > Seems that he has not inkscape installed, is this a common practice > on Mac? If this is the case, it would be perhaps better to avoid a > need for conversion in the splash file. Here on Debian, it seems that > Inkscape is installed with gnome. > > 2) Opening the Tutorial, section 2.1, he fiddles about a lot to > find the installation folder where are the examples, As he does not > find it in the Mac directories, he finally opens the lyx package and > uncompresses it in a local place. > > Two questions there: here I have a 'Examples' button wheb I select > File>Open. Is it true on Mac as well? Where is the installation > folder on Mac? > > 3) Trying another document class, he selects Docbook (not a good > choice for a beginner IMHO). And when he wants to open it, this > triggers the firefox of his windows virtual box. Then he goes to > Tools>Preferences>Converters and is quite sarcastic about the dialog > window about LyXHTML, which he does not understand. It's a bit > curious in fact (no viewer defined), see attached. > > This guy is very self confident about his system configuration > and negative about LyX in his mail, Personnally I think that his > system configuration is not so good as he says, and that the Lyx > configuration missed some important stuff.. I will ask him to > reconfigure and send over the result. Is it easy on mac? >
